SAN DIEGO: Nude swimmer shot with stun gun after fighting with police

Incident draws large crowd

A nude swimmer at Ocean Beach today wrestled with San Diego
police, who shot him with a stun gun as several people tried to
interfere with his arrest and 100 more watched, a police sergeant
said.

Lifeguards asked police for help shortly after 2 p.m. near the
Ocean Beach pier at Newport Avenue, because a man in his 20s who
had been swimming nude in the ocean was being uncooperative and
lunged at one of the lifeguards, said San Diego police Sgt. Ray
Battrick.

When police arrived, he allegedly fought with them, Battrick
said.

Officers called for emergency backup and several officers held
the man down and one shot him with a stun gun.

One man in the crowd allegedly hurled a can at a lifeguard and
was arrested on suspicion of assault.

The naked man was jailed on suspicion of public nudity,
resisting arrest and being under the influence of drugs, Battrick
said.